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Ms Cara Hunter: Assembly records
All of Ms Cara Hunter’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any specific plans and mechanisms in place to ensure that children in Irish medium schools, in full language immersion settings, receive support that is linguistically and pedagogically appropriate.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, in light of the Holywell Trust survey showing support in Donegal, west Tyrone, and west Derry for official recognition of the area as a single economic sub-region and greater cross-border cooperation in health, transport and environmental management, to detail any steps she will…
Minister, in America, the state of Pennsylvania ran a successful pilot of the removal of university degrees from the essential requirements of 90% of civil service job applications. Currently, it takes up to 11 months to fill a Civil Service vacancy here, and many people without degrees feel left behind and frozen out…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any engagement that has taken place between his Department and the Department for the Economy in relation to the impact of Local Growth Fund reductions on specialist employment support for people with learning disabilities and autism.
To ask the Minister of Health whether he intends to bring forward amendments to the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 to reflect modern service models and the needs of young people with complex disabilities transitioning from special schools into adult services.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail, for each of the last five academic years (i) the number of classroom assistants employed; (ii) the number of pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Needs; and (iii) the number of pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Needs who receive one-to-one classroom…
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any equality impact assessment that was undertaken, including a summary of any findings, in relation to the reduction in Local Growth Fund support for services assisting people with learning disabilities and autism.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether her Department has considered extending its planned legislative provision for young people, to include those with complex needs leaving special schools.
Thank you, Minister. I met community transport providers this morning. Will you commit to meeting them to explore this further and to utilise them to provide a solution that is best for our children and is economically and environmentally beneficial for all?
Ms Hunter asked the Minister of Education, given our shared belief that we must do what we can to ensure that our children are safe and that transport is fit for purpose and cost-effective, whether he has had any discussions with community transport bodies on how they can help to transform our Education budget, in…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any assessment he has made of the disparity in suicide rates between men and women; (ii) the amount of funding allocated to male-specific suicide prevention initiatives; and (iii) any plans to develop a dedicated men’s health strategy.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any guidance his Department has issued to schools, in the last three years, specifically addressing the underachievement of boys; and (ii) any measurable targets in place to reduce the attainment gap between boys and girls.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any requirements set by his Department for Initial Teacher Education providers in relation to training to address boys' underachievement and male educational disengagement.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) whether any assessment has been undertaken of the impact on students of the requirement to sit the UCAT for entry to medical schools in Northern Ireland and the HPAT for entry to medical schools in the Republic of Ireland; and (ii) whether discussions have taken place…
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department has made any assessment of whether online appointment booking improves GP practices effectiveness, such as shorter waits and better access.
To ask the Minister of Education, in respect of Classroom Assistants employed by the Education Authority (EA) to detail, (i) the number engaged on Temporary Engagement Forms, in each of the last five years, broken down by EA region; (ii) of those staff, the number who subsequently became permanent under the Fixed Term…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the number of additional Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) posts, or equivalent full-time release hours, that will be required to deliver the Enhanced Support Model effectively; (ii) any workforce modelling that has been undertaken to determine that figure;…
To ask the Minister of Justice (i) whether her Department has undertaken any assessment of the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s compliance with its statutory language and equality duties, including in respect of the use of the Irish language, in relation to its branding, logos and public signage; and (ii) to…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any steps his Department is taking to ensure that statutory nursery schools are treated on an equal footing with statutory primary and post-primary schools, including in workforce planning and wider policy development initiatives, where appropriate.
To ask the Minister of Education, given that almost two-thirds of respondents to his Department’s consultation opposed the proposal to scrap AS-Levels and move to a fully linear A-Level, whether he will now withdraw that proposal.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any assessment her Department has carried out to evaluate the accessibility of public transport for people living with disabilities, including how any assessments are used to inform future transport strategy and service improvements.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps he is taking to prepare the health and social care system for the projected rise in dementia prevalence and associated costs, as highlighted by the Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland.